Kim Stephenson

Finance Is Personal: Making Your Money Work for You in College and Beyond Kim Stephenson

Commendation Quotes: "Stephenson and Hutchins are financial wizards who know something extremely important--they know that money isn't everything. "Finance Is Personal" will help you connect with what really matters and make financial decisions that serve your deepest values and highest priorities. Reading this book is like having a wise, kind, and determined coach at your side. This kind of guidance is rare and potentially life changing."Commendation Quotes: "Stephenson and Hutchins blend financial acumen with sound psychology in a seamless way. Their book explains complex topics in a very accessible form, offering guidance to the college student population in an engaging manner that speaks directly to their issues and concerns about where they are going and why, and how they can manage their money to achieve their aspirations."Commendation Quotes: "Although some of the most important decisions we make in life are financial, most people rely on their intuition rather than reason. In "Finance Is Personal," the authors digest key findings from psychology to help readers leverage their natural style, preferences, and values in order to make more effective and profitable choices. This book will do more to increase young people's financial IQ than any formal course, MBA, or business experience--a must read!"Commendation Quotes: "Stephenson and Hutchins provide a wonderful and valuable discussion of personal finance. This book is highly understandable and substantive for college students learning about finance for the first time. The authors present a well-balanced approach between academic findings and application of this subject matter."Biographical Note: Kim Stephenson, CPsychol, ACII, Dip PFS, is director of Stephenson Consulting. Ann B. Hutchins, CFC, ACC, is the principal of Ann B. Hutchins Financial Coaching. Publisher Marketing: Financial planning and money management are hot topics, but most books don't help you figure out what you truly want your money to provide for you. Exploring links between money and happiness, this guide is based on sound theory and on the latest research in psychology, behavioral economics, happiness, and neuroscience. It will give people at any stage of life--especially those of you in college or starting careers--the tools to plot your own course through the financial world and, ultimately, use money as a gateway to a happy and fulfilling life. Stephenson and Hutchins introduce core concepts that support strong, sound decision making around money, based on personal values, attitudes and beliefs, and goals. Practical, information-gathering questions and exercises help you uncover your true financial needs. The final two chapters show you how to integrate the relevant information with your goals and develop a plan for success. Along the way, you will learn such things as how to plan for your long-term goals, how to delay certain types of gratification for another type of instant gratification (peace of mind), how to think about credit, and how to make decisions on such issues as renting or buying, investing or saving, and borrowing a lot, a little, or not at all. Finally, you will come away with new ideas for how to have fun on a budget.

Contributor Bio:  Stephenson, Kim Tania Roxborogh has been teaching high school English since 1989 and has worked with Sunday school groups and youth groups. She was head of drama for five years and has taught in a range of high schools. She now teaches English full-time, writes when she can and, with her husband, runs around after her children and a small menagerie of quadrupeds. The mother of two daughters (a young adult and a teenager), Tania is the author of over than twenty-five books including novels for young adults and pre-teens, Shakespearean and English grammar texts, plays, and nonfiction. Kim Stephenson is the head of the guidance faculty at a senior college and is the school's guidance counselor. She has a degree in sociology and women's studies, a Master of Education in Counseling, and also has a background in domestic violence support and counseling, and in elementary and junior high school teaching. Within the school environment, Kim has facilitated anti-harassment teams, harassment workshops, anger management workshops, peer mediation, learner champions (students who are trained to support their peer group, in particular kids with needs) and conflict resolution. Kim is passionate about relationships-the ways we connect with one another. She loves the capacity for people to grow and change and learn.